[3] He served as Jacques Rivière's secretary at the NRF, until 1925 when he succeeded him as the journal's editor.

[4] One of his most famous works of literary criticism was The Flowers of Tarbes, or Terror in Literature (1941), a study of the nature of language in fiction.

[5] Paulhan also wrote several autobiographical short stories; English translations of several appeared in the collection Progress in Love on the Slow Side.

[6] During the Second World War, Paulhan resigned from his position as director of the NRF rather than collaborate, and recommended Pierre Drieu la Rochelle as his successor.

[9] Author Anne Desclos revealed that she had written the novel Story of O as a series of love letters to her lover Paulhan,[10] who had admired the work of the Marquis de Sade.